Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-19
LONG DEFIANCE rELEPHoNING.

LONG DIsTANCE TELEPHONING. Swinging the Copper Wires up State | Street GaIaxIes of Scintillati ons Under the Electric Light-Easy Tele. phon1ng from Boston to Philadel phia-$I, 900 a mile-Revolutton1zin BusiWess Methods.
 Many of our people passing along on State street in the last few days have stopped to behold the progress of the work of stringing the copper wires on the tall telephone poles of the Boston and Philadelphia long distance telephone line-the new line which is soon to put Philadelphia and Boston in talking com- munieation with each other. Many have gazed at the men at work on top of the tall poles eighty feet from terra frma and mar yelled at the unconcern of these intrepid workers, who seemed as much at home on their high perches as if working on the solid ground. Many, too, walking along State street at night have, in glancing upward, had their attention arrested at the sight of what, through the interlacing branches and full fedged foliage of the umbrageous elms, looked like new galaxies of stars of the hue of Mars, but which on closer inspection were seen to be merely the effect of the brilliant
 
 highly furnished copper wires far overhead. At the central office of the Southern New England Telephone company in this city, MT. Frary talks daily with Philadelphia and soon will be able to talk with Boston. The public importance of this new line and of long distance telephoning in general is ag- parent at once to all. The test line built from New York to Boston in 1884 by the Bell company was success, as our citizens know, and then follow ed the building of the line connecting New York and Philadelphia, distance of over 100 miles. This was built by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, which is only another outgrowth of the Bell Go. This company was formed soon as it was found that the New York and Boston line of | 'S4 was success. Twenty wires were first strung when the New York and Boston line was built over year ago, and the business has increased so rapidly that twenty or more wires have been added and the line extended to New Haven, seyenty-two miles farther, with thirty wires. About forty special trans mitters have been put Tn at Philadelphia for subscribers using the line frequently and 130 in New York, while connection can be made with the regular exchanges, which have over 15, 900 instruments.
 REvoLUTIoNIzING BUSINESS METHODS
 The successful working of this line is rev. olutionizing methods of business along it's route. The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, which has done an enor- nous amount of telegraphing between its New Haven and New York offices, has now leased two lines and is rapidly substituting conversation for other methods of communi cation and expects soon to do away with tel egraphing This is the highest recommen- dation the service can have, for telegraphing has thus far been considered indispensable to accuracy in railroad matters. Eight large factories between New Haven and New York are now using this line.
 While this line is the first practical use of long distance telephoning it is also the first telephone line in the country built for per manency. As in railway line, the right of way has been secured with care. The poles are all of Canadian cedar, averaging fifty feet in height and often running up to eighty feet in the cities to avoid trees and buildings. The wires are Nos. 12 and IA, weighing about 120 pounds to the mile. The poles are set 150 feet apart on a straight line and 100 feet apart around curves, while the cross bars are made firm with iron braces. Only ten wires are allowed to a brace and they are passes along the top of the poles to strengthen them and protect the copper wires. Where the line passes through swamps plank walks are laid for the benefit of line men, and no wire is allowed to be within twelve feet of the branches of tree. About twelve towns arc luCluueu III bAo 4Auo ArOm Iu1lAQoipula JO New York, and the wires pass through the metropolis by underground cables, which are brought into the new telephone building at IS Cortlandt street, which is used as the cen tral exchange. From New York the line passes to Katonah, thirty-ive miles away, and easterly to New Haven.
 THE LINE FROM NEW HAVEN.
 From New Haven it passes through North Haven, Wallingford. Meriden, Berlin, New Britain, West Hartford, Bloomfield, East Granby and Sufield. Work will begin in .Agawam this week, and the West Springfield selectmen met the officers of the company yesterday to locate the line through that town. Loops will be run out to towns near the route wanting the service, and Hartford has already been included in this way. A right of way has been purchased along the Central Massachusetts railroad to Boston, and the posts have already been laid and the wires strung to Amherst.
 OFFICERS OF THE NEW COMPANY.
 The officers of the new company are Theo- dore N. Vail of New York, president; Ed- ward J. Hall, jr., general manager; Angus s. Hubbard, general superintendent, and W. H. Fairbank of Warren, general superinten- dent of construction. W. K. Frary, son of Obadiah Frary of Springfield, is manager of the New Haven district,
 A branch line, it was learned here yester- day, would also be built at once by the same company connecting New York and Albany. and placing Albany in easy talking commu- nication with New York, Philadelphia, Bos- ton and all intermediate stations, New Haven included. The cost of building this line we learned yesterday is about $1, ,0e0 mile. Twenty-Nine More New Members Last
 Night.